New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 7, 1917, Page 18

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1917. Aeg PEVAL TELLS OF BELGIAN OUTRAGES | Gavell's Lawyer Descries of German Invaders toga Springs, N. Y., Sept. i &tory of three years of German on of the covenants of the | Convention, during the Teu- occupancy of Belgium since the fld war began, was told briefly to- f by Gaston de Leval, of the Bar of dls, to members of the Ameri- Bar Association in convention lles 11— any articles of the Hague Conven- p, when tested by the facts in Bel- with the invaders applyin ir ‘own interpretations, “‘proved al- Mr. d¢ Leval sald. | e imposing of cxcessive fines, the flshment by death and imprison- of Belgian men and women and | ldren unwarrantably accused of on and lesser crimes, and the de- tation of his compatriots into sla- were discussed by Mr. de Leval n the legal viewpoint. jotwithstanding “all the sufferings tyranny to which the Belgian ulation has been subjected,” the er asserted, the people are as ; otic now as wlren in the early Mod of the war they stemmed the frman flood at Liege. o matter how much the Germans advertised their victories and powerfully their military system jo impressed the Belgian popula- B, he said, “that population is just i hopeful during the first days it the cause of civilization will tri- aph, and that tyranny will be Jushed, because they know that right Imight, that right is the only might “that the Lord has said: ‘Bilessed \they which hunger and thirst af- righteousness, for they shall be L Stiv Up Flemish and Walloons. Mr. de Leval told how the Germans to make capital of the quarrels h, before the war, had taken between the Flemish and Wal- | elements of Belgium—the ones ndants of German tribes and the descendants of the Romans. nce the very beginning they (the ns) cajoled the Flemish popu- he sald. “They tried to make Believe that Germany was helping r aspirations to free themselves f the troublesome Walloons. They them that, owing to the German these Walloon and French el- jents were to te set aside and the fMlemish population emerge richer, jre with its own language in the oreground. | “But the people did not listen to fhese siren songs. So, the Germans dded compulsion to persuasion and B by their new law made one country of the Walloons and one country of the Flemish, hoping, of course, that after the war the Flemish population at any rate would be a stepping stone for Germany to further conquest. “But this separation is only on pa- per, and is not'and will never be com- pletely obtained. All the chiefs = of Belgian departments have resigne” rather than carry out such instruc- tions, and the Germans, who had, when they came into Belgium, prom- ised that all agents of the Belgian Government continuing their duties would always be free, if they so de- sired, to leave their posts, are now sending to German prisons the chiefs of those departments who have car- rled out what their consciences told them was their duty.” Mr. de Leval paid tribute to Ameri- ca’s aid to his country, and especially to Brand Whitlock, former Minister to Belgium. “His name”, he said “will go. down in history,” adding “I know that in'no other ccuntry of the world, so much as in America, in this coun- try of freedom and justice, do the sufferings of the Belgians arouse sym- pathy. 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These records are very satisfactory; yowll find them at the Camera department. _l } lute nec: of Bel- remind ther:. will be in each village gium a memorial put up to future generations that if the Belgian race has not died out, honor for its preservation is due to the citizens of free and generous America. Cardinal Mercier Religious King. Mr. de Leval paid a tribute also to Cardinal Mercier, who, he said, *'stood in the country like a living flag of Belgium. like a religious king, and from all the world he received homeage due to his courage and gen- ius.” The speaker said that one place which remained sacred from invasion was the church, to which “the arm of the German law did not dare extend the iron first.” Alluding to the Hague Convention, Mr. de Leval quoted article 43, which states that the military authority when occupying an enemy country will respect the laws of that country and make no changes unless there is an ‘“‘absolute necessity.” “What is an ‘absolute necessity?’ ™ Mr. de Leval continued. ‘‘Unfortun- ately, the Hague Convention gives no definition and the speeches of its members throw little light on the sub- ject. “The Germans have given to ‘abso- sity’ 2 wonderful extension. If a law is required by which a ma- chine can be taken out of Belgium. to be used by a Germn manufacturer for no matter what kind of work use- ful to the German empire, it is soon found an ‘absolute necessity’ to empty a Belgian to replenish a German fac- tory. If a German politician thinks that a certain rule imposed on Bel- gium will have some political .impor- tance in Germany in a quarter of a century, that rule will be established in Belgium by ‘absolute necessity.’ If Belgian courts seem too fair to the Germans to be relied upon when a German interest is involved, i i the | be an ‘absolute necessity’ to modify the rules of those courts and to bring before a special court, *“made’in Ger- many,” all questions in which such interest is concerned. ‘“We must never forget, and the Brussels Bar repeated it time and again to the German commanders, we must never forget that speaking the writers of the 19th cen- | tury have followed Montesquieu’s and Rousseau’s teachings, which denied the lawfulness of the right of con- quest.. It has been generally admi ted, and the Hague Convention con- firms it, that conquest by itself is merely an act of might and gives no permanent right to the conquerer over the occupied territory, unless, a peace treaty confirms it. But of course, when the legitimate ruler of the country can no longer enforce his own enactments in his state and a foreign army occuples it, circum- stances .arise where it is necessity to modify or even to suppress the exist- ing legislation and replace it by a more adequate rules. The Hague Con- vention says regarding this: «Art XLIII. The authority of le- gal power having passed de facto into the hands of the occupant, the latter shall take all ‘steps 1in his power to re-establish and insure, as far as possible, public order and safety, while respecting, unless abso- Jutely prevented, the laws in force in the country.” . Hague Convention Valueless. “All this reads very well in books, put when tested by the facts in Bel- gium, the Hague Convention—at any rate in this matter—proved almost Valueless. It is very nice to say that the occupant shall not modify the ex- isting law of the occupled territory except in case of absolute necessity. But, as I have already asked, what is lute necessity? It may be a generally | ) moral—or rather immoral—it may be a legal or illegal, it may be an eco- nomic’ necessity; it may be a political or’a’military necessity Who is to de- cide? Who is to be the judge of this most perplexing issue? Should the case be decided, like an ordinary case, between the government and the citi- zens, by the courts of the country? Or should the military authority sub- mit to no judge at all, and simply say ‘it is quite enough if I say that there is such a necessity?’ " “Impotent Hague Conventions!"” Mr. de Leval exclaimed. “If the gen- tlemen who sat around the diplo- matic tables at The Hague. when drafting the rules by which the civi- lized nations brund themselves to be ! Safeguaras Health of The Children Constipation, or inaction of the bowels, 18 a great menaco to health. Cathartic or_ purgative remedios should never be given to children a3 the violence of their action tends to upset the entire digestive system A mild laxative 18 far preferable, and the Comnbi- nation of simple laxative herba with pepsin known as Cald- s S7rup Pe drug storcs for fifty cents a bot- tle, 1s highly recommended. This preparation = contains no opiate, narcotio, or habit-forming drug of any description, is 1d and Zentle in its action, ‘elief in an easy, natur Its pleasant taste l?pe dren and they take it .’ea d . 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